Robert Shiller

Co-founder of MacroMarkets LLC, Co-creator of the Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, and Professor of Economics, Yale University

Robert Shiller is currently the Arthur M Okun Professor of Economics Department of Economics and Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics and Professor of Finance and Fellow at the International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management. He has written extensively on financial markets, financial innovation, behavioral economics, macroeconomics, real estate, statistical methods, and on public attitudes, opinions, and moral judgments regarding markets. His books include Irrational Exuberance, a national bestseller., The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century, Macro Markets: Creating Institutions for Managing Society’s Largest Economic Risks, and Subprime Solution: How the Global Financial Crisis Happened and What to do about It.

He has been research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research since 1980, and has been co-organizer of NBER workshops: on behavioral finance with Richard Thaler since 1991, and on macroeconomics and individual decision making (behavioral macroeconomics) with George Akerlof since 1994. He served as Vice President of the American Economic Association, 2005 and President of the Eastern Economic Association, 2006-07.

Robert is one of the co-founders of MacroMarkets LLC and is its Chief Economist. MacroMarkets is a boutique investment banking firm creating new financial instruments designed to add liquidity to valuable economic interest and important asset classes throughout the world.